Portable PC Usage by Generational Groups

The PC Pitstop Windows PC form factor chart shows that the overall percentage of folks using portable PCs reached the 50% mark during August 2014. The portable percentage has grown at a very gradual but consistent rate over the years.

The data for this report comes primarily from our customers running the PC Matic scans for their PC systems each month. (Note: The erraticness of the Millennial generation plot line is likely the result of the smaller sample size of that group in our customer base.) While all groups have seen a portable form factor increase over the years, the older generations lag in their respective usage of portable PCs.

As a member of the “older generation”, this author doesn’t find it too surprising. Usage habits and possibly some resistance to change likely play a role in the explanation of these results.